Welcome back to Trump Watch, your end-of-week guide to President Donald Trump and the law.

While the special counsel probe appears to be nearing its final stages, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York seem to be buckling in for more work with an array of investigations and inquiries related to Trump and Trump-related entities. Who are some of the lawyers representing Trump and those entities linked to the president? It's time for a who's-who guide to Trump's legal circle, New York edition.

K. Lee Blalack II, of O'Melveny & Myers. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

While special counsel Robert Mueller III's inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election appears to be winding down, this week dealt the president a few reminders that potentially larger legal trouble awaits elsewhere.

There was the news this week that federal prosecutors in Manhattan issued a subpoena against Trump's presidential inaugural committee seeking records related to donors, vendors, finances, and more. The demand for documents comes as the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York reportedly probes whether the committee, which raised a record $107 million in donations, illegally accepted foreign contributions or misspent some of its money. It was yet another signal that the investigations arising out of New York could ultimately pose more legal challenges to Trump than the special counsel probe.

It was also the latest reminder of the wider array of inquiries and investigations Trump faces in New York. So far, there are open federal criminal inquiries into possible links between the Trump campaign and Kremlin in the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. election, obstruction of justice, a hush money payment scheme, and the 2017 presidential inaugural committee.

With that in mind, we thought that a review of the legal teams was in order. Who's representing Trump and his various entities in New York?

>> K. Lee Blalack II, a partner at O'Melveny & Myers, is representing the Trump inaugural committee. Blalack, currently the firm's regional head of litigation in Washington, D.C., has a history of representing targets of grand jury, congressional and regulatory investigations, according to his firm page. His client list has included former U.S. senators and congressmen, and he guided former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein when he testified before Congress in 2010.

>> Still leading the legal team for the Trump Organization is Alan Futerfas, a longtime criminal defense attorney in New York. The company and its executives continue to face legal scrutiny in New York over their involvement in a hush money payment scheme allegedly carried out under Trump's direction. CNN reported this week that Manhattan prosecutors are seeking interviews with Trump Organization executives.

Futerfas isn't only representing the Trump Organization. He also represents Donald Trump Jr., and has previously represented the now-dissolved Trump Foundation. The Trump Organization also recently retained Stefan Passantino, former deputy White House counsel, to handle the company's response to congressional inquiries.

>> During the closely-watched fight over seized records from the FBI's raid of Michael Cohen's office last year, Trump relied on Joanna Hendon, a Spears & Imes partner, to represent him in court. Hendon's a former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York. She also currently represents Trump, the Trump Organization, and Trump's three eldest children in a civil racketeering suit brought against them in October.

>> Finally, there's Trump's personal legal team, led by attorneys Jay Sekulow and Rudy Giuliani, which has taken the lead representing the president vis-a-vis the special counsel probe, but has occasionally spoken in public about Cohen. The team still includes husband-and-wife criminal defense lawyers Marty and Jane Raskin, who are based out of Miami, Florida, as well as Andrew Ekonomou, who's worked with Sekulow for a long time.

William Barr appears for his confirmation hearing. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

Trump Docket

>> The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted, 12-10, to advance William Barr, Trump's pick for U.S. attorney general, sending his nomination to the floor. The panel also voted out 44 judicial nominees, including six circuit and 34 district court picks, and two international trade and two federal claims court nominees.

>> Speaking of nominees… Neomi Rao, Trump's choice to fill the D.C. Circuit vacancy left by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, on Tuesday defended—and expressed some regret for—controversial writings she penned in the 1990s. Rao acknowledged during her confirmation hearing that some of the language she used in the columns made her “cringe,” and said she has matured since then. Rao also fielded questions about her role heading the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

>> Paul Manafort will be sentenced on March 13 in Washington, D.C., in what will be one of two sentencing hearings that will determine his fate. The former Trump campaign chairman pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy and witness tampering. The hearing date was set as U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson continues to mull whether Manafort intentionally lied to prosecutors during the course of his cooperation. Manafort—who was also convicted last year of financial fraud crimes by an Alexandria jury—will be sentenced on an unknown date by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III of the Eastern District of Virginia.

>> Roger Stone is opposing any prospective gag order, and is looking to get a new judge as he fights charges that he lied and attempted to obstruct House Intelligence Committee investigators probing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, and attempted to pressure a witness to lie to the panel. Stone's case has barely been before Judge Amy Berman Jackson for a week in Washington D.C.

Speed Reads

>> “Federal prosecutors in recent weeks have been interviewing witnesses about the flow of foreign money to three powerful law and lobbying firms that Paul Manafort recruited seven years ago to help improve the image of the Russia-aligned president of Ukraine, people familiar with the questioning said.” [New York Times]

>> “A criminal appellate prosecutor who was part of an ongoing subpoena fight related to the special counsel's investigation into Russian election interference concluded his detail with the team in December, the special counsel's office has announced.” [CNN]